The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-02-10
SCHOOL EXAMINERS QUESTIONS.
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HISTORY.
I. Trace the extension and restriction
of slavery in the U.S
2. Tell briefly what you know Of the
Dutch settlements in the U.S.
3. Give the result, and the names Of
the commanders of the contendinR par
ties in the following battles Tippe.
canoe, Antietam, Eutaw Springs and
Camden. =
1. Name in order the commanders of
the Army of the Potomac in the Civil
S. Name the American ard British
commissioners that signed the treaty at
the close Of the Revolution.
8. What IL an ex.post-facto law
Bill Of attainderY q
Z. Name and describe three different
forms of Colonial Government.
8. Who was the atith0r of the Civil
Service Bill? What prominent U. 3
official recently died.
3. Name the four Southern States
that were the last to secede.
10. What In your opinion would be
most effectual In preventing the people
Of the U. 8. from drifting Into very
poor and very rich classy
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What can you say as to the cause
of the lawlessness and dis0bedience,
now too prevalent in our country.
2. Your notion as to extreme quiet
or stiffness in the school room.
3. Which is better, to control chill
dren or teach them to control them
selvesp
L., What is.s your opinion of the
teacher whose sum total of school
room instruction consists in having the
pupils memorize page after page Of the
text booksp
g.. What are you doing in the way
of object lessons and oral instruction ?
6. What exercise in composition is
required of your pupils?
Z. How do you manage refractory
pupilsY Tardy pupilsp
8. How many school journals do
you takep ,0.
9. How many standard works on
education have you read during the
year?
10. Have You studied mental
science? ...
1. Give the idiomatic and the gram.
maical use of the word there.
9. Give the various examples of nouns
in the nominative absolute case.
3. Give a list of the verb TO be with
their various notifications Of tense,
person, and number. r
4. Correct f: Every boy and girl must
learn their LESSON. She is such an ex.
travagant woman. Eve fairest Of her
daughters. ,o, -
s. What auxiliary verbs are signs Of
tenseY Which signs of moodsp
6. Name the grammatical signs, and
write opposite each name, its sign. Viz;
ApostrOphe (') Quotation e. ~.
Z. What decomposition? What are
its varieties +?
8. What is prosep Verse?
8. What is verse? A coupletY A
stanzap
10. Analyze by diagram or otherwise
the following sentence
"Whom made lord OF me and all I had,
At your important letters.-this Ill day,
A most outrageous fit OF madness took
That dsspsr.s.,y S h. buried through .h.
Doing displeasure to the citizens"
ARITHMETIC.
l. Show without division that
36432 contains 8, 8, II as factors.
2. When the hour hand of a clock Is
~ minutes ahead of the minute hand,
how far must the minute hand move to
Overtake the hour HANDY
8. A mans income Is derived from
the proceeds of $2,275 at q certain rate
per cent, and S2,71O at / per cent.
more than the former rate. His whole
income is $425.9O. What are the rates ?
4. A can do as much work In 9
days as b can do in ~, and B can do
as much in 2 days as G can do in 2X.
They all start together and complete q
Job worth 36l. How much Of the
money should A receive?
8. How far will carriage have
travelled when the fore wheel will have
turned 60 times more than the hind
wheel, the circumference being 8 feet
and 10 feetp
8. Bought a farm for 5000 and
sold 1t at loss of 10 per cent; how
much must / borrow at 3 per cent, 30
that by investing all I have at 10 per
cent, I may retrieve my lossp
z: A bought eggs at 10 cts. . dozen;
had he bought 8 moro for the same
sum, they would have cost IN cts. q
dozen less. How many eggs did he
.. To find the solidity Of . frustrum
Of . cone. Rule: To the area Of the
two bases at the square root of their
product and multiply the sum by x Of
tho altitude. Show how the rule can
be modified to make the solutions Of
such problems shorter and explain the
change.
9. The area of q triangle is sae "a.
#. Two Of its sides are d and % It.
respectively. Find length Of third
10. I marked goods to gain 90 per
cent, but on account of using an in
correct yard measure I gain only 20 per
cent. What is the length Of the mea-
sure?
l. Describe the structure OF Asia.
2. What influence has the spherical
f form e Ct In the Earth upon the wind-sys-
8. In what circumstances do navi-
s I. WHAT u subjects as ss'; are % taught IN
physical GeographyY
s. Enumefate the principal uses of
water IN the economy Of the earth.
6. What i1lapds are included in the
East Indian Archipelagof
Z. Tell why the Arctic and Ant
Arctic circles arc drawn ~ from
the poles. and giye width OF Temperate
zones. at
8. What is the exact direction Of
Greenland from the north p0leY Mad
agascar from the eouth polep New